Word: papally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your examination of the papal visit to Agca catches precisely the cosmic dimension of the Pope's forgiving act. When all the Caesar-vs.-God distinctions have been made, when all the private morality-vj.-public policy nuances have been noted, the fundamental truth remains. Plato put it well when he described the state as "man writ large...
...Pope can afford to forgive his would-be assassin., That is his right as an individual. His action is also a manifesto for his flock. But do not tell me that those who endured the Nazi furor are supposed to follow the papal example and forgive the mass killings. The victims' ashes and bones, scattered in graves unmarked by a cross or David's star, would be desecrated by such a gesture...
...since Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 have sent personal representatives to the Vatican, there have not been any official diplomatic exchanges since 1867. It was then that Congress, responding to a wave of anti-Catholicism and American sympathy for Italian efforts to reunify their country at the expense of the Papal States, passed a resolution barring the government from spending federal money on missions to the Holy...
...presidential representative to the Vatican since 1981. to serve as the new ambassador. Wilson, 69, is a California real estate developer and charter member of Reagan's kitchen cabinet of personal advisers. Archbishop Pio Laghi, 61, the apostolic delegate in Washington, will become Wilson's counterpart, the papal pronuncio. One of the Holy See's ablest diplomats, he previously served in Argentina, where he assisted the Vatican's mediation of the Beagle Channel dispute between Argentina and Chile...
...homily, spoken in German, the Pope declared, "This meeting moves me to the bottom of my heart." He added, "We ardently desire unity and we make every effort to achieve it without being discouraged by the difficulties we may meet on our road." The words echoed a papal letter honoring the 500th anniversary of Luther's birth, which spoke of a man of "profound religiousness...